Stephen's face turned red, and he didn't know if he was excited because he read the book, or because he was ashamed after slapping the table.

Fortunately, there is only one guest in this small café now, which makes his embarrassment much less.

The boss sat behind the bar and said with a smile: "It's a pity I don't have any wine here, otherwise I can bring you a drink." ”

Stephen nodded, indeed, that sentence just now did make him feel a kind of chest concussion, and if he had a glass of wine at this time, it would definitely be very comfortable.

He smiled and didn't say anything more, but looked down at the book in his hand again, the story continued, Santiago's battle with the sharks was still going on, and Stephen was desperate to know if the old man had defeated them in the end.

His heart is hungry for victory, and he hopes that the hero of Santiago will finally complete his mission and bring the big marlin back to the port and return as a victor.

Yes, in Stephen's eyes, this is no longer a simple fishing, but a great mission. The hero, Santiago, is now fulfilling his own mission.

But in the end of the story, he didn't get his wish, and Santiago failed, and he just brought back a fish bone.

With a long sigh, Stephen was a little disappointed, "The hero still failed in the end. ”

The boss was wiping his glass behind the bar, but his mind was always on Stephen's side, and when he heard him talk to himself, he put down the cup in his hand and said with a smile, "I don't think he failed." ”

"Didn't fail?" wondered Stephen, "but he only brought back a fish bone." ”

The boss shook his head, "It's not a failure, it's a success, he had the opportunity to give up, but in the end he didn't give up." If we measure his success or failure by whether he brought back the big fish or not, then he is indeed a failure. But if he didn't think so, he was successful, and in the face of difficulties, in the face of sharks, he did not give up and fought until the last moment. Isn't he a success relative to most of us?"

Stephen's level of education is not enough, he has read and reads, but this is enough for him to read. For what the boss said, he didn't seem to understand, and he didn't understand it very well.

The boss had long expected Stephen's ignorance, and he said: "For example, in our town, many people have lost their jobs in recent years, and everyone's life is not very comfortable. Some people slowly lose their heart and begin to give up on themselves, and some people feel that the sky is falling, and they feel sorry for themselves at home all day long. If everybody, like Santiago, believed that people can be destroyed, not defeated, I think we'd be in a much better position. ”

Stephen was one of the people the boss said were unemployed, and the boss's words reminded him of himself.

After losing his job a few years ago, he tried to find a job, but it was not so easy to find, and after looking for a few days, he felt that he could no longer find a job, so he never looked for it again, but chose to go home and stay.

"But even if it does, will there be more job opportunities? If you can't find a job or you can't find a job, the end result will be the same, like ...... Just like Santiago, he still didn't get the big marlin in the end. Stephen said.

For Stephen's questioning, the boss seemed to have anticipated it a long time ago, and continued: "I'm not talking to you here for nothing, in fact, you don't need to see San Diego, we have such people in the United States." There's a girl in Alabama named Helen Keller, have you heard of it?"

"Helen Keller? You mean the deaf man?"

"She wasn't just deaf and dumb, she lost her hearing and vision at a very young age. Do you know what that means?"

Without waiting for Stephen to answer, the boss continued: "This means that her world is dark, with neither sound nor image. How can she learn to speak and write with such a person?"

"It's hard to imagine, has she learned?"

Not to mention the loss of hearing and vision since childhood, it is difficult for even the average deaf person to speak clearly.

"Learned, or you wouldn't have heard the story now. No one expected her to be able to do this, and she did it even better than the average person. Not only did she graduate from college with honors, but she also published her own book in the first two years. And he is already married, but unfortunately, she divorced again last year. ”

"Divorced?"

"Well, I heard it's a divorce. ”

"It's a pity. ”

"There's nothing to worry about, it's just a divorce. ”

"It's just divorce. ”

The boss smiled and concluded: "You see, even if something like this happened to her, she didn't give up. ”

Helen Keller's story is still quite famous in the United States, but at this time, it has not reached the point of becoming a household name, and many people do not know that there is such a person.

It wasn't until later, after "If You Give Me Three Days of Light" came out, that everyone really understood her story and idolized her.

The boss gave her an example to tell Stephen that a person's power is infinite, and a person's belief is also incomparably strong.

After listening to Helen Keller's story, Stephen nodded with some emotion: "Even if we are like her, and we are still living so strongly, what reason do we have to escape?"

The boss was pleased with Stephen's reaction, "So you still think San Diego has failed?"

Stephen shook his head, "Is it a failure, is it so important?" The important thing is that he did it, and we didn't do anything. ”

……

When he got home from the café, Stephen was all thinking about "The Old Man and the Sea" and the story of Helen Keller told by the boss.

He also deliberately turned on the computer and searched Helen Keller's affairs before he really learned about this person.

In addition, he also saw that Helen Keller also seems to have recently initiated the formation of a Helen Keller Foundation, and is striving to join the American Foundation for the Blind, hoping to help other disabled people through her own efforts.

On Helen Keller's personal website, Stephen also found a job posting to find volunteers who would like to be part of the foundation's efforts to help others.

Sitting in front of the computer, Stephen thought for a long time, and finally clicked on the website to apply, and suddenly he realized that he had something more meaningful to do.

After filling out the application form, he took a deep breath, and later ran to the FOF, found Zhuang Yan's relevant community, and wrote his own post in the community.

And he used the phrase "Butamannot ......" in the original text as his title.

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